At Quakecon at the weekend Bethesda unveiled their startling new gameplay trailer for Prey, Arkane Studio's terrifying first-person sci-fi shooter set in space.

You can check out the most recent gameplay trailer above and though it's fairly brief, it does just enough to peak your interest for the exciting new game heading to PS4, Xbox One and PC at some point next year.

Bethesda has said that the game will have a sort of survival thriller atmosphere but in a piece published with Gamesradar, it's also been mentioned that it has a lot of Metroidvania vibes.

The term 'Metroidvania', for anyone who doesn't know, is the name for games which take cues from the old Metroid and Castlevania series where the entire game world is open from the start but gated dependant on your characters abilities and equipment.

Prey Screenshots

Prey is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is scheduled for release in 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One

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"I’ve heard people use that term before describing our game," lead designer Ricardo Bare said at Quakecon.

However, interested gamers need to know this isn't an actual open world, considering the game is still housed entirely on a space station, ala Alien Isolation and Bioshock's Rapture.